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Azure – General availability: Application security groups support for private endpoints
Application security groups (ASGs) support for private endpoints is now generally available. Read More for the details.

GCP – Scaling machine learning inference with NVIDIA TensorRT and Google Dataflow
A collaboration between Google Cloud and NVIDIA has enabled Apache Beam users to maximize the performance of ML models within their data processing pipelines, using NVIDIA TensorRTand NVIDIA GPUs alongside the new Apache Beam TensorRTEngineHandler. The NVIDIA TensorRT SDK provides high-performance, neural network inference that lets developers optimize and deploy trained ML models on NVIDIA […]

GCP – How to plan your SQL Server migration to Cloud SQL
A SQL Server DBA has many options for transferring data from one SQL Server instance to a new environment – those options can be overwhelming. This blog aims to help you decide what option you might want to choose for your specific migration scenario. We’ll walk through several steps for deciding on a migration plan: […]

GCP – Transforming customer experiences with modern cloud database capabilities
Editor’s note: Six customers, across a range of industries, share their success stories with Google Cloud databases. From professional sports leagues to kidney care and digital commerce, Google Cloud databases enable organizations to develop radically transformative experiences for their users. The stories of how Google Cloud Databases have helped Box, Credit Karma, Davita, Forbes, MLB, […]

GCP – How Confidential Space and multi-party computation can help manage digital assets more securely and efficiently
Managing digital asset transactions and their often-competing requirements to be secure and timely can be daunting. Human errors can lead to millions in assets being instantly lost, especially when managing your own encryption keys. This is where multi-party computation (MPC) can help reduce risk stemming from single points of compromise and facilitate instant, policy-compliant transactions. […]

GCP – L’Oreal enables a global developer workforce with secure cloud development environments
With many dramatic shifts in the world of retail over the past two decades — from the explosion of e-commerce to the COVID pandemic — digitalization is no longer just a strategic choice for companies in the retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, but a necessity for survival. In this blog, we discuss how […]

GCP – Looking back at Retail’s Big Show: Google at NRF 2023
Enabling retailers and brands to use technology to discover new opportunities for growth, innovation and productivity is one of our greatest passions here at Google Cloud. Every year, we look forward to the National Retail Federation (NRF) annual conference and expo, and Retail’s Big Show did not disappoint. To celebrate NRF 2023 being back in […]

GCP – Native image compilation – what’s new, and what’s next?
Native image compilation has been an emerging technology in the Java community for a number of years. In a sentence, it offers a smaller memory footprint and dramatically faster startup times which makes it especially well suited for Serverless use cases. Earlier in 2022, at I/O, we discussed the technology in more depth and how […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive adds timecode burn-in
You can now use AWS Elemental MediaLive to add timecode visually into individual video outputs from a MediaLive channel. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS Multi-AZ with two readable standbys for RDS PostgreSQL now supports inbound replication
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports inbound replication from Amazon RDS Single-AZ database (DB) instances and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instances with one standby to Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys. You can use this inbound replication to help migrate your existing Amazon RDS PostgreSQL deployments within minutes to Amazon RDS […]